v?? * '?* ?v." - "~ '. '''^tl<* " > .*? '? "jV::w '"*HBp'' ; ? ? a Xsu ^ ? ? H -df ?- m IK" ">?- y ? - 8LFk JiHHr^ ? a ?* mm^m ? -? ? m UA'V -^mmmiP*W1 * jpi^ * JMfc^Z * *11*" * r ? 1 - : 111 " V ' .. - ?' ' ' NUMBER TWENTY 1^1^^' HIGH' Thursday's Sale Aver ag 37.81 Cents Per Pound and a Higher Average is Forecast For Today Sates on the Fkrmville tobacco market this week have been reported as reflect*? a stronger advance in prices each day with yesterdsyVaale ' of S07450 pounds bringing fanners 1116,400.78 and an average of $87.81, which is cloee to the highest paid since 1010. Today's sale, which is said to he the second heaviest of the week, wfll bring to a close the most successful week of sales in many years. Floors : will be cleared in the late afternoon ' in preparation for another heavy ' sale Monday. The quality of the offering was apparently the same as Thursday with prices denoting wen , stronger competition. R. A. Fields, supervisor of sales, . gave the season's figures, including Thursday's sale as 12^78,454 pounds, . which sold on the Farmville market for $3,676^0842, en average of 22l96 cents per pound. Observers expect the season will be short this year and predict that { only a small per cent 'of the crop . will be left in the packhouses on the farms by November L But prices have soared to unexpected heights and the farmers have realised more money to date than for their entire crop last season. According to Su- : pervisor Fields, the market average is $12.63 higher than the same date of the 1940 season. Governor Urges Support of Fair Raleigh, Oct. 2.?Governor Brough ton today invited North Carolinian* to see their State Fair at Raleigh, October 14-18, declaring that he was "pleased with the progress made by the fair and with the service it has rendered toward building a more bal anced and prosperous common wealth." , "The State agencies are working in unison towards the goal of pre- \ sen ting to North Carolinians a graphic picture of the progress of the State in the various exhibits and displays prepared for this exposi tion," the Governor said. "The State Fair provides a pro of both education and enter tainment. It Is the desire and pur pose of those in authority that the educational features be paramount and that the fair shall be devoted to the purpose of giving to the dtixen ship of our State an opportunity to become better acquainted with the march of progress in education, agri culture and industry. "The past four expositions have been presented under-the management of the State Department oi Agricul ture. They have been eminently suc cessful both from an educational and financial standpoint The esteem of the people of our State for this con structive type of exposition has been manifested in many ways. I com mend this great institution to' the people of North Carolina as worthy of their continued interest and sup port" j More than 90,000 square feet of, displays of an educational nature will be seen at the Fair this year, bat entertainment features will be abundant mctading the World of Mirth Shows, with 22 ridsa and shows on the midway; nine gmabUnd acts George A IT?id; hsrne? and auto races; flasauik* each night and "Lucky" Teter and His Hell Driven aa October 15. V ? ? ' ** A ? ' "'*r ' *+'?".?;? :>-? Sjg l ^aririeP license' pLat^ wilTbe issu ed in 1942 tar tracks owned and M operated by fanners for the traae] ? portatkm of their products and som ? pttee, John W. Goodman* aaabtatf ? director of the N. C. State College Extension Service said Tuesday. I In edhf attrattra to the nei type of license plate, Goodman said last General Assembly amendec . ?n . j. . ' \ I > Among tzecns j ? * Premier iSas is Con demned to Death by Germans; Shootings in ; Yugoslavia i Berlin, Oct. L?The Nazi-picked 1 premier of the Czech protectorate of 1 Bohemia-Moravia, two more Czech < generals and an undetermined num- 1 ber of other persona were shot or * condemned to death today in stern - continuing suppression of what the ' Germans term a treasonable plot The generals, described by a Ger- j man spokesman as brigadiers, were * the fourth and fifth of the general < rank to be executed since the Nazis - announced they had smashed a eon- : spiracy to overthrow German rule in 1 the protectorate. ' The announcement that they had bees shot followed by a few hours 1 the news of the death sentence of 1 General Alois Ettas, the Bohemia- 1 Moravia Premier. He was con- 1 demned by a German court at Prague for "preparation for high treason and abetting the enemy." DNB said he ' bad made a "full confession." His ; property was seized. Four Czechs were said to have been ' acquitted by a court martial. 1 In its swift action to round up and - root out all elements connected with ' an alleged plot to throw off German 1 rule, the Gestapo today also held 256 1 Czechs for "investigation." r Many Executed There was no information whether any of these already had been placed before firing1 squads, but 88 Czechs, including a number of generals, edu cators and other prominent persons, were listed yesterday as executed. "The punishment of elements in triguing against the state continues on its course," said Dienst Aus Deutschland commentary in Berlin. This was taken to indicate that more Czechs were slated' for death following a thoroughgoing investiga tion by the new German protector, Reinhard Heydrich, assistant to Reichs Police Chief fiemrich ffimm ter. - The conviction of General Elias, who has been premier since 'April, 1939, included a provision included a provision depriving him of his civil rights for life. (There was no explanation for this sentence against a man condemned to die. His condemnation implied a vast extent of anti-German activities in dismembered Cxecho-Slovakia.) There is no appeal from the deci sion of the court except to Adolf Hitler himself. It was not stated whether the death sentence already had been carrid out. ' Elias, who was arrested Sunday, was not only premier, but minister of interior; and was a key man in the administratiop of the protecto rate. News of other developments in the protectorate was reduced to a care fully-controlled trickle through Ger man official and semi-official sources. ?Tar Heel Soil I Is h Etemasd I Growing Interestin Purchase of N. C. I Farms Noted Raleigh, Sept. 30.?There is grow , ing interest in the purchase of farm land in North Carolina, It W. Shoff ner, extension specialist in farm ? management at-State College, said [ today. He reported that most of it those who are seeking farm land are! ?^interested in agriculture on a parti J 'fRiere axe considerable inqui^iee JF-ttw UvtnivlvJ V&. ?* V I A 11 _ i _ a m? , l _ ? _,? i. .J.. ( xuic&vS nintrv irreKit-1 I o ??ill pQrj o t|xf I jHpQl l/>rim I 'V -. ..? ; '?;? '? 1 -"r^ ? ', A:'r:" Washington, Oct. 1.?Sweeping charges of irregularities in policy , and "questionable transactions" in ] the handling of National. Youth Ad- 1 ministration funds were filed with . Congress today by Comptroller General Linsay C. Warren. , In one of the most scathing indict- ] ments of a federal agency in recent , I'ears, the North, Carolinian asserted , that continuation of many current practices by the NYA "would ap parently prevent the youth of the , country from receiving full bene- ] fits of the funds" appropriated by j Congress. , Warren's scorching report, cover- f ing more than 150 pages, was sent ] to Representative Clarence Cannon { jf Missouri, chairman of the House i Appropriations Committee, and was } released on Capitol Hill. The North i Carolinian refused to make any comment on the report, pointing cut that he was fulfilling his func- ] tion as an agent of Congress in } studying and reporting on the man" j tier in which appropriated "funds were j expended , _. Agency Costs , Establishment and maintenance of ^ employment agencies in 180 to 18? , NY A offices in 41 states during 1 March, 1940, apparently had cost $629,527 in excess of the estimates submitted by NYA Administrator , Aubrey Williams, Warren's report ^ asserted. The total administrative , cost of the junior replacement pro- } gram from 1985 to July, 1940, simply . could not be ascertained from NYA officials, he added, as "it was stated ] that such expenditures were charged ; to the NYA general administration expense and not set up on the ac- J counting record as a project." Examination of NYA records, War ren declared, revealed "numerous irregularities or questionable trans actions, many of which, if continued, would apparently prevent the youth of the coSxatry from receiving the full benefits of the funds" given to NYA. Correspondence fund in NYA files, the report continues, shows that each state was given a quota ? of young people to bp given assist^ ance so that appropriated funds could be expended. As early as 1939, it is charged, NYA began en countering difficulties in maintain ing these quotas because so many young people were entering mili tary service or finding private em ployment. In the face of this situation, NYA ' reduced its minimum age limits from 18 to 17 years and finally to 16 years so that quotas could be maintained. The report further asserts that NYA even asked the Army recruit ing servnce not to contact youths em ployed on NYA projects for purposes of enlisting them. Other salient charges contained in ? Warren's reportasserte^nsF^^^* I NY A officials mixed public and I private business in collecting travel I expenses, and that some false claims ? for travel authorization and expense I Certain employes had received dual I compensation through their being I maintained on NYA pay rolls as os I tensibly taking "accumulated leave" ? while they were actually working ?for the Mate employment service, Certain officials had received per I diem expenses while actually on H Headquarters for officials bad been I selected for the convenience of the Hi jiffT.if 1_ Hr ? * *-"V J-'. ' " -1, 'r' ' ->J. v',^1 I Persons had been employed by I NYA for use by other agencies. I Additional compensation had been! I paid a husband for work done by hisl I Christmas cards had been printed I ?K*t government expense and sent out I ? by NYA staffs m New York Ithdl I had been abused through private long-distance calls, Numerous calls I lr which parties in three or more cities f posefipf^ r gr. , , , , . . f .V . . ? , . - , I J accept NYA employment I ?? ? 21 ^ J the enormous scope of the defense ? program. Gradually, the impression J prevails that the armament program | presents the world's most gigantic undertaking, one so largte as to ehal- 1 lenge the productive capacity at the greatest industrial system in the ! world. [w|\ ? . ? ? v^:i;: William S. Knudsen, Director Gen- 4 iral of the Office of Production ! Management, is out with the predic tion that longer working, hours and i lower standard of living are jtist ihead. The re-armament program,, ie says, will mean sacrifices to the iverage man and hundreds of thoua mds of workers will-hive to shift to ? uew types of work before the national goal is attained. .* ? I. ? ?? 1 % The $3g,000,000,000 that have been, let in contracts by the armed forces mean nothing to this man who says that he understands "man hours two hands working an hour," and he adds that "more of us working six Jays insteaf of five" will be necessary to produce the tanks, small guns, ammunition and planes which make ip successful defense. Mr. Knudsen points out thai the armed serviceshave placed more than 20,000 supply contracts of $10, )00 or more, with a total valpe of more than $14,000,000,000. New plants and additions to plants have reached a total of 2,750, with a value of $4,800,000,000. Of this, the Gov ernment has provided $3,800,000,000. A., total of 165 ways have been con structed for merchant ships, With.-81 ocean-going ships launched this year and 561 expected next year. The Supply Pryorities and Alloca tions Board is trying to allocate available supplies of materials to de fense and civilian, -needs but Mr. Knudsen tfarns that it wijl be e mis take to assume that both needs can be fully taken cai* of. Defense re quirements, an utteily unknown quan tity at this time, may be greatly en larged because "war is Hke a drunk en party; you never know what will happen next." I * ' I . -V1 ? ? ' V " t i The demand for major raw materi als, vital to defense, increased in 1941, over amounts consumed in 1989, from 33 per cent in rubber to 256 per cent in brass. Requirements for next year, under present plans, call for in creases ranging from 4? per cent in rubber to 214 per cent in aluminum and 898 . per cent in brass. vThe average American citizen should understand that the United States is attempting to do in a few years what Germany accomplished in seven years. The nation has start ed at scratch, finding # necessary to construct huge plants before begin ning the- production of defense ma terials. Even today, the flow of de fense supplies is but a trickle com pared with the enormous supplies which will begin in 1942. - When the nation begins to produce tanks, planes, guns and vehicles -and other items of war equipment* by the thousands each month there are only two factors involved; Man hours of work and mountainous sup plies of raw materials. The labor must come from Americans, cooper ating with their Government and with industry, and some of the materials, at least, must be secured thrbligh the discontinuance of the manufacture af goods desired by American consum ers. . '.Vi. i St T"- :? -V?'J ? DEFENSE IN BRIEF I RESULTS IN SIGHT ~ IMO SCHEDULES Some idea of the magnitud* of the I present defense effort is.secured by comparing the more than $66,000, ?000,000 now involved in the arma Jment program with the estimated I cost of the World War to this" couh ftry, $30,000,000,000.! ; i f Si v.- .. ' I Since June, 1940, when the pro g-ram got underway,' Congress has authorized the expenditure of $00, ? I nrnnrintinn ^ I propnoiion. J 1 [ - - Apportionmpiie? -?-Ithft kn?^ - gmx I shows that the army involves $24, I ft CAT AAA AAA iL XT #1dS Aorr AAA AAh j. iense ci^encieSy y /?yoivUvivUU* ^ u m ^ - ^ - v-5^ - * I m ? ' " e4*i AlI I ' M I | Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept 27.?(De layed)-^'field force of the United | States Army?infantry, artillery, and engineer, signal, ordinance and medi cal unito?has arrived here *ith vast ' supplies pf equipment and materials. $ to make this one of the most fonnid- t able fortresses of the North. s The Americans brought what their 0 commander, Major General Charles c SrBonesteel, called "some interest- t ing equipment"?skis, snowshoes, and Garand automatic rifles for every $ man?to take over camps built by Icelanders gathered at the docks j cheerd as General Bonesteel saluted < at the order "eyes right" The music died, and the Americans j fell to work. i ' ' 1 |New Excise Taxes I Become Effective ? ?? '-f% Excise taxes levied under the re cently enacted national defense reve- ; nue program went into effect Wed nesday and the public began, to feel tiie effects immediately. - Anyone going to a movie had to pay an extra levy. It also was ap plied to bus or train tickets, went into effect immediately upon liquor and local telephones. Movie tick ets selling below 21 cents are no longer exempt from taxes and in come tax payers were reminded that they will have to pay more next March. The exemptions also were lowered to include thousands here- > tofore. exempt from the levy. While the merchandise taxes will be collected from the manufacturers many retail establishments were ex pected to put lip' their prices to. "train" the public to the increase on all new goods purchased. Among the new taxes vrere .levies on sporting goods, luggagfr^ectri cal or gne or oil appliances, photo graphic apparatus, electric signs, business . machines including- type writers; rubber articles, washing ma chines to be used by commercial laundries,. optical equipment and electric light bulbs. Taxes were in creased on automobiles, auto parts, tires and tubes,V playing cards, ra dios, refrigerators, safety deposit boxes, pin ball and slot machines, bowling alleys and billiard tables^ musical instruments and - phono graphic records. - There are also new taxes oh local telephone bills 'iSM-transportation pickets. ; ' . if 525 ! ? I potatoes, biscuit*. 10c. Lemin pie. j I Thursdfty L S&Inion croquettes ' Moscow, Oct. 2.?The United States md Great Britain agreed to fill vir ually every Soviet need forf war applies in exchange for mountains i Russian raw materials at the conc luding session- last night of the hree-power conference, ?. j ^ : The conference closed two days ihead of schedule after only three layB of sessions?probably the short" st international council of such di tiensions ever held. A communique ssued by the British and American elegations- and one by Russia an-( tounced its results. For the United States and Great Srit&in, W. Averell Hargman and iord Beaverbrook promised: "To place at the disposal of the Soviet government practically every etpiirement for which the Soviet oilitary and civil authorities have aked." In return, said the communique ssued by Harriman and Lord Beaver ?rook "the Soviet government has applied Great Britain and the United States with large quantities of raw oaterials urgently required in those ountriee." ? *3 Tiiimsil I Arrangements were saia vu wto teen made to "increase the volume if traffic in all directions." The United States-British com munique declared that Premier Stalin "expressed his thanks to the Jnited States and Great Britain for heir bountiful supplies of raw ma erials, machine tools and munitions if war" and acknowledged "the am )le supply of Russian raw materials 'rom the Soviet government." Final Peace The communique ended with this rtatement: "In concluding its session, the xmference adheres to the resolution )f the three governments that after; he final annihilation of Nazi tyran ?y, a peace will be established which vill enable the whole world to live' n security in its own territory in :onditions free from fear or need" The Soviet communique stressed he "atmosphere of perfect mutual understanding, confidence and good trill" and said the "delegates wore 'inspired by the eminence of the sause of delivering other nations from the Nazi threat o< enslave ment." ' Stalin, it Said, "took f n active part" in the conferen i, which "manifested perfect unanimity and close cooperation of the three great powers m their common efforts to gain a vietoty over the mortal enemy of all freedom-loving na tions." ?. j.' ? ?????? I The nation's- entire surface trans ?portation system, including railroads, Iwater. and motor carriers, is being I studied by a Congressional beard to determine future possibilities'ih de I To Remain Open I Should Avoid Maneuv I er Territory, Saya I I ^Raleigh, Sept. 25-Chief ffigwj I rials at Hoffman, .said yesterday^! ? had been informed that no majofl I during maneuvers scheduled to begiil I Earlier plans had called for tern I ? routes, he said, btxt the 4rmjr&ov I I has mapped^ ita^ movements most? (heights, road widths and other infor I M ft- H I A-'1. -J? Lk n .. - t A rHIV nf^nrniAT'TATfl JZJZT/i ? KdlfiA '"RT3 I irom local ofnciaI& I ??..w. f^CDM it A1U uFA v>v Uii VifilkL V * ' ' '' ^ ' Berlin, Oct 2^Arthorized "Nasi commentators admitted today that the Russians may have gained su periori^jrin the air "in "some sectors" f by roncentrtting their planes, hot they said Russia's air losses vert 15 times 'greater than Germany's.' So-" ?let airplane losses the past five ':L days weregivonas 854, compared to 23 German planes lost The Finnish capture of Petroza vodsk, a Lake Onega port on the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, 88 miles beyopd the old Basso-Finnish border, was featured in German war dispatches last night, bat the tetest news reels, showing German troops slogging along mod-laden roads on the Finnish front, augured badly for future fighting in that area. The news reels showed the results of fire weeks of continuous rain in that area. Supplies moved over roads pitted with mud holes and "food Dearer*" were boowh carrying meals for the front line troops over 12 miles of tundra in five-gallon containers strapped to their backs. Secure Railroad. A spokesman here saft^ however, that the fall -of Petrozavodsk would enable the Germans to use the Are tic railroad to haul supplies down to the Leningrad front. The spokesman said "large seals" German operations still were going on at the southern front and that the battle lines were constantly ap proaching the Donetz basing in the Kharkov area. f Nazi informants denied reports from Stockhom that the Baaaians had succeeded partially in break ing through the German siege lines at Leningrad. The Nazi said the f action referred to happened last .week, that the Russians were thrown back with heavy losses and that they had not attempted another break-through since. The Stockholm report, circulat ed by correspondents of the news papers Tidningen and Dagfens Ny heter from Helsinki, said the Rus sians advanced from the Leningrad garrison under heavy artillery bar rage and led by heavy and medium tanks. They drove a wedge through the German line, recaptured one town and were slowed' down by German mine fields after Russian infantry had consolidated the gains, the newspapers said. On the central front, "large-scale Bolshevik attacks" wdte admitted by DNB, but it add all were re pulsed with heavy losses for the So viets. Reminiscing on the battle of the Kiev encirclement, where 655, 000 Soviet prisoners were claimed of ficially and Soviet casualties were estimated-as high, as 1,300,000, DNB said that in "local action alone" in that araa-> between August 6 and September 27, there were 91,752 Soviet prisoners taken, along with 1,044 Soviet armored cars and -802 ? ' . f cannon. < 11 DAILY MAIL DISPATCH ? SATS GERMANS DEFEATED I! London, Oct 2.?A Stockholm dis I I patch ot the Dally Mail said today l| that the Soviet Leningrad amy had l| broken through thje German lines II around the city at four points and I jihad swung back the whole right wing I 1 of Marshal Wilhelm Bitter von Ltub's llarmy?constituting a reverse for the . Germans of considerable magnitude, j The Russians were said to have II attacked-acrpss-the River Neva' on la 30-mile 'front from. &>lfino to ' | Schluesselburgs- Kolpino is 20 miles Iff southeast of Leningrad and Scbtaes ? j selburg is on Lake Ladago. J The dispatch said the Germans " | were forced to retreat 'westward I >1 from the Eolpino - Schluesselburg i line, after which the Leningrad gar j rison "joined up with the rest of -| Voroshilov's armies in the south." l! it added that Von Leeb now finds rj himself forced back to the post- \ , Irj tion he occupied early in Septamber. I - Mpch U. S. Deportment of Agri I culture marketing news now is hringy I vision by a New Tork radio station. a] Two worthy i-l who are too had and those who are Lftl Anny ^